Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 2 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 3 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 4 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 5 | Karpov also claimed that the Soviet Ministry of Nuclear Power , which he said had a vested interest in obscuring the facts , had exercised undue influence over the parameters of the study . |
| 6 | He was all for England 's democracy and against any form of union with Wales , Scotland , Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man , for which he seemed to have a particular dislike as " a nucleus of Celtic imagery " . |
| 7 | Personal delight and considerable sensitivity is evident in his work ; whether the delicate pencil studies of his middle years or , later , in his watercolours in which he seemed to find a new kind of inner freedom . |
| 8 | The only part of the United States in which he seems to take a consistent interest is Brooklyn . |
| 9 | But the excuse which he gave had a genuine ring about it : he could not afford to go , for none would serve in his retinue unless he rewarded them with revenues from his own lands , which would entail a loss of status ( ‘ grant abesement de mon estat ’ ) which the king would not wish . |
| 10 | Now began a new phase of his life in which he tried to live a grand , filmstar-type life in a huge house on three acres of land . |
| 11 | It must be incarnated in the world Christ came to redeem , in which he is already present , and for which he has prepared a transformed future . |
| 12 | A groundswell of media opinion is pushing for Gavin Hastings as captain and his off-the-field credentials — particularly the manner in which he has created a happy spirit in the Scottish camp — give him a head start over England 's Will Carling . |
| 13 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 14 | An example of this is found in , in a recent book by Richard Dawkins , where , and here I quote Dawkins , Dawkins says Lamarckians are traditionally fond of calluses , that is you know , erm , hardened skin , thickened skin , like on the sole of your feet , and he contrasts these Lamarckians who like callouses , with the Darwinian , who he says has a ready answer , in terms of natural selection . |
| 15 | mind you he 's got a good filter system , he 's got a U V light in it , |
| 16 | About everything he writes hangs a faint savour of calculation . |
| 17 | As she had walked towards him he had felt a physical pain in his guts . |
| 18 | The BBC told him he 'd made a promising start . |
| 19 | I mean we have n't seen an awful lot of er Julian Jochim yet but th the two occasions when the ball 's been fed into him he 's shown a brilliant ability to turn with the ball and get at the defenders . |
| 20 | My last question to him there was what his reaction would be if one of his sons told him he wanted to marry a coloured girl . |
| 21 | When I returned to Moose Jaw about mid-August I had a long talk with Fred Workman , who told me he had noticed a certain restlessness in me as if I were hoping for a change of scene . |
| 22 | I should state here that Cizek only takes children nowadays whom he thinks have a certain aptitude for drawing and painting . |
| 23 | His office at the Caterham factory is covered with pictures of Seven racing cars — and one of Patrick McGoohan , whom he persuaded to endorse a special 35th anniversary Prisoner edition of the Seven this year ; his most animated conversation is reserved for descriptions of the car and its abilities , and one could almost believe that finances and company administration took a firm back seat to the development and fine tuning of the car 's design . |
| 24 | The prosecution said it was a tragic case ; a brilliant academic who 'd killed his quiet , middle-aged parents , for whom he 'd developed a consuming and irrational hatred . |
| 25 | It was the Reverend Baron who pointed out to his landlady that her husband and his employers , about whom he had heard a great deal , would be lucky to get back to Florence ‘ before war really takes hold ’ . |
| 26 | It goes without saying that he was deeply interested in Factota Limited — and in the girls themselves , of whom he had heard a great deal from Roger Kenyon , who was his friend . |
| 27 | In 1870 he followed Stroudley , with whom he had developed a close friendship , when the latter moved to the London , Brighton and South Coast Railway as locomotive and carriage superintendent and became locomotive and carriage works manager of that railway . |
| 28 | Cook was thus greatly distressed and bewildered to learn that the New Zealand Maori , for whom he had developed a respectful admiration , ate their defeated enemies without compunction ! |
| 29 | There was the celebratory dinner on coming out of the line near Cassino , when Captain Sir Hugh Arbuthnot slung a full bottle of wine down a long table at Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Makins , to whom he had developed a sudden antipathy . |
| 30 | Indeed , the only person whose company seemed to detain the worldly , elegant Colonel was the Reverend Nicholson , with whom he had contracted a conversational friendship based , it appeared , on a mutual zeal for the discussion of the profoundest spiritual matters — the power of prayer , the meaning of the Three Days in the Tomb , the date of the origin of the world , the precise division of responsibilities between the Holy Trinity . |